Word: shelley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French) ; De Quincey brought him toward Wordsworth; Hazlitt, by devious means, to the metaphysicians. He read The Origin of Species and a life of Buddha; he bought a Gray's Anatomy and set his hopes toward medicine. Those hopes were forgotten when he happened on Chaucer, Keats and Shelley, who opened "a world where incredible beauty was daily bread and breath of life...
...Atlantic with Masonic passwords: quotations that will always be recognized by the elect." Among the great quotations the elect may recognize: II Corinthians iii, 17; John viii, 32; Psalm 140; the Golden Rule; Patrick Henry on liberty; the Declaration of Independence; Rule, Britannia; Byron's Sonnet on Chilian; Shelley's Masque of Anarchy; Thoreau's On the Duty of Civil Disobedience; The Battle Hymn of the Republic...
...professors who resigned were members of Haverford's English department. Dr. Leslie Hotson, Canada-born, is renowned as a "literary detective." Through old court records he tracked down the name of the murderer* of Playwright Christopher Marlowe, and he ferreted out long-lost letters that Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote to his wife after he ran away with Mary Godwin...
...Wally DeWitt who copped the scoring honors with steady toe. The former Stanford center counted eight conversions out of ten attempts to collect a total of 16 points as his final effort for the Rugby Club. Shelley of Queens kept the score from a blank by making good a penalty kick for three points...
...whole undertaking, to our mind, is like having a devotee of Eddie Guest decide whether or not Shelley's poetry is immoral; or like a Fence Club Sophomore telling Ely Cuthbertson how to play contract bridge. No doubt if the social-science texts being scrutinized fail to go down the line for Parson Weems and the cherry tree story, the good manufacturers will conclude that American youth is being inculcated with totalitarian propaganda...